Top Artists

Jarabe De Palo

Artist, Contributor

Barcelona-based Jarabe de Palo mix rock music with anything that takes their fancy: flamenco, salsa or samba.

Tiësto

Artist, Contributor

Dutch artist Tiësto used trance music as a springboard to become one of the most popular DJs in the world.

Demi Lovato

Artist, Contributor

Demi Lovato is a rock-tinged pop singer who got her start with Disney, starring with the Jonas Brothers in Camp Rock.

Within Temptation

Artist, Contributor

Formed in the mid-’90s, Dutch opera-metallers Within Temptation were soon landing dark melodies on pop charts across Europe.

Franco De Vita

Artist, Contributor

Music industry veteran Franco De Vita was one of the top-selling artists in Venezuela in the 1980s.

Little Mix

Artist, Contributor

This sassy UK quartet is an r&b-lovin’ pop band with a deep debt to classic girl group sounds.

Top Works

good to know

Jojo

JoJo’s fourth full-length album, and first on her own Clover Music imprint with Warner Records, 2020’s Good to Know, finds the singer digging into a sensual R&B sound that’s marked by a hard-won maturity and creative freedom. The album arrives four years after Mad Love, during which time JoJo parted ways with Atlantic Records and worked to take control of her career, launching Clover Music and releasing re-recorded versions of her first two albums. Here, working with producers Doc McKinney, Dylan Wiggins, Lido, and others, JoJo frames her warm vocals in hypnotic downtempo …

Reunions

Jason Isbell, The 400 Unit

Some albums are made to reflect the times in which they were made, and others somehow mesh with the zeitgeist without ever planning on it. America was a nation knee-deep in uncertainty when Jason Isbell wrote and recorded 2020’s Reunions, but he had no idea that the album would be released as a pandemic was sweeping the world. Thanks to COVID-19, the record emerged just as an America in quarantine was united in anxiety and frustration while at the same time struggling with a growing divide about what to do and who to believe. Reunions doesn’t …

BEFORE LOVE CAME TO KILL US

Jessie Reyez

Anyone familiar with the range Jessie Reyez has shown since 2016 was not taken aback by news that the artist fought the pressure to make her first album a cohesive one. The uncommonly versatile singer and songwriter went multi-platinum in her native Canada with a sparse heartbreak ballad, “Figures.” Its parent release, the Kiddo EP, also featured the glass-rattling “Gatekeeper” — an alarming account of her experience with a sexual predator — in which she sang from her perspective, and rapped and sang from that of the offender. She has co-written simple love songs like “One Kiss,” a U….

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